How do you feel?
(After student has the best run-through of a competition piece she has ever performed…)
Teacher: “Wow!”
Accompanist: “Yeah, wow!”
Teacher: “That was great! How do you feel?”
Student: “My feet kinda hurt.”
My book smells like skunk
Student: “Dr. H, I don’t have my book with me today.”
Dr. H: ”Where is it?”
Student: “I left it at home because a skunk came and sprayed our front porch and the smell got into the house and now my book smells like skunk.”
PS. This is from a college student!!
Don’t tell Mommy
Ms. R: “Are you going out for Halloween this year?”
Student: “Yeah, but we’re having a party, too.”
Ms. R: “A Halloween party?”
Student: “No, a birthday party. My mommy’s birthday is on Halloween. Don’t tell Mommy, but she’s turning 40.”
Ms. R: “Does she not know?”
Student: “I don’t think she does.”
Trying to imagine baldness
8 year-old student (after studying Ms. K intently): “I’m trying to imagine you bald. You’d look weird.”
Curvy slurs
Student: “I sure do like those slurs.”
Ms. R: “Because you like playing legato?”
Student: “No, because they’re so curvy. Gotta love those curves.”
Carrots
Mr. H: “The notes on top alternate between ‘i’ and ‘m,’ and the notes on the bottom are all ‘p’s.”
Student: “Oh ok, where are the carrots?”
Mr. H: “Carrots?”
Student: “Yeah, you know, peas and carrots? Like the vegetable? That’s a joke.”
Dog food
3-year-old student is performing Haydn Surprise Symphony on the piano. Right before the “surprise,” she stops and turns around:
3-year-old student: “Did you know that there is dog food behind the oven?”
23-year-old teacher: …..
3-year-old student (nodding head fervently): “It’s DOG food!”
(Student turns around and finishes the piece, leaving the teacher wondering what just happened.)
‘Dos
Ms. R (pointing to a portrait of young Mozart in a book): That is a very famous composer, there. Do you know who it is?
Student: I don’t know, but he sure has some funky looking hair.
Wolfgang
Student: “If a person was kinda dumb, they might think a wolf wrote it.”
-On a piece by Wolfgang A. Mozart
Naturals
Student (on naturals): ”Guess what Miss Rose! I mastered the taking-away-the-sharp technique!!!”
